Horrible XML parsing error reports ---------------------------------- Key: AS7-1231 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1231 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Quality Risk Reporter: Bill Burke If I make a typo in jboss-web.xml (or any other descriptor for that matter) I get really obscure errors that don't help me debug the problem. (See below). Each project really needs to 09:39:14,132 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-8) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."basic.war".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."basic.war".PARSE: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "basic.war" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:121) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1765) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ClearTCCLTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2291) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [:1.6.0_26] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [:1.6.0_26] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) [:1.6.0_26] Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: Failed to parse "/content/basic.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml" at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.JBossWebParsingDeploymentProcessor.deploy(JBossWebParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:66) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:115) ... 5 more Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Received non-all-whitespace CHARACTERS or CDATA event in nextTag(). at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [5,4] at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.constructWfcException(StreamScanner.java:606) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:479) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:464) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextTag(BasicStreamReader.java:1137) at org.jboss.metadata.parser.jbossweb.ValveMetaDataParser.parse(ValveMetaDataParser.java:45) at org.jboss.metadata.parser.jbossweb.JBossWebMetaDataParser.parse(JBossWebMetaDataParser.java:155) at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.JBossWebParsingDeploymentProcessor.deploy(JBossWebParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:64) ... 6 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira